Device for preventing bottle-refilling



4(No Model.)

W. H. PAYNE. DEVICE FOR PREVENTING BOTTLE RBE'ILLING. No. 566,720.

Patented'Aug. 25. 1896.

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IVILLIAM II. PAYNE, OF CAMDEN, IYEV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR T ZACIIARIAII K. LOUCKS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

DEVICE FOR PREVENTING BOTTLE-REFlLLlNG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 566,720, dated August 25, 1896.

Application filed May 25, 1895. Serial No. 550,637. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: 6 is a groove jformed in the joint between Be it known that I, WILLIAM I-I. PAYNE, a the parts l and l. citizen of the United States, residing at Cam- 7 is the guard, formed preferably of china,

den, in the -county of Camden and State of porcelain, or glass, both on account of hav- New Jersey, have invented certain new and ing thoroughly innocuous properties and 55 useful Improvements inDeviees for Preventalso as frangible, although metal, such as ing the Clandestine Reiilling of Bottles; and block-tin, silver-plated copper or brass, or I do hereby declare the following to be a suiiialuminium maybe used. lhe upper edge oi cientlyfull, clear, and exact description therethe guard 7 is held in the groove G. In plan ro of as to enable others skilled in the art to make view the guard 7 is circular. In side view in 6o and use the said invention. one direction it resembles a gothic arch, as

rlhis invention relates to devices for preshown in Figs. l and 2, with an opening or venting the clandestine refilling of bottles by channel l2 extending across it near the unauthorized persons, and has for its object crown, and in a view at right angle to this the furnishing of a cheap and effective means it resembles an inverted gothic arch with a 6 5 of preventing such refilling without detecchannel 9 below and at right angles to the tion; and to this end it consists of avalve-seat channel l2. The under side of the guard 7 and avalve opening automatically outwardly has formed on it a small inverted cup l0, from the bottle and automatically closing having a thin-edged rimv and a central prolzo against ingress thereto and in a guard prejection ll extending below the rim of the 7o venting access to the valve, but permitting cup, the function of which projection being egress of liquid from the bottle. The invento limit the extentof opening movement of tion further embraces means of guiding the the valve 4 and to present the smallest survalv'e to and from its seat and of securing face for any adhesive liquid to make contact the guardin the neck of the bottle or in tubes with the ball. The cup l0 serves to deflect 7 5 or sleeves applicable to the bottle-necks. any liquid poured into the bottle-neck from The construction and operation of this inthe projection l1. vention are hereinafter fully described, and The course of liquid when poured from the shown in the accompanying drawings, in bottle containing this device is between the 3o whichball 4 and guides S, through the channel l2, So

Figure l shows a vertical section oi a botthence throughihe channel 9, and out through tlc-neck with this invention applied thereto. the neck l, as shown by the arrows in Figs. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of a tube containl and 2. ing this invention applicable to bottle-necks. The form of the guard 7 prohibits the in- Fig. 3 is a detached top view of the guard. troduction of wires or other objects to reach 85 Fig. 4 is alower detached view thereof. Fig. the valve, and if any force is applied the is a perspective view thereof. guard 7 is bent or broken and leaves evidence 1 represents the upper part of the bottleof tampering with the bottle. neck, attached to the lower part l by any Having described my invention and the 4o known meanasuch as internal or external mode of making and using the same, what I 9o screw-threads and a nut 2, or a segmental claim isscrew-thread or interlocking projections and l. In a device for preventing the clandeseeinent, or by cement alone, all of which extine refilling of bottles, a valve seat and cepting the last named are shown in the drawvalve opening upwardly in the neck of a botings. A valve-seat 3 is formed in the lower tle, or in a tube applicable thereto, and g5 part of the neck, in which a ball-valve 4 fits. guides supporting said valve in arial line Guides 8 are formed on the inside of the neck with the valve-seat, in combination with a l', which support the ball 4 in position conguard having two communicating transverse centric with the valve-seat 3 as it opens and channels therein, located one above the other,

5o closes in the seat 3. the ends of the upper channel opening into 1o@ ythe lower part of the bottle-neck, and the end, of the .lower channel opening into the upper part of the bottle-neck, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a device for preventing the refilling of bottles, a bottle-neck, or tube applicable thereto, formed in two parts, with an internal groove between said parts, means of uniting said parts, a valve-seat formed in the lower part, and a valve, in combination with a guard, having transverse communicating channels arranged one above the other as def scribed and shown, engaged in and secured by said groove, substantially as set forth.

3. In a device for preventing the refilling of bottles, avalve-seat and a spherical valve opening outwardly in combination with a superposed guard,havng communicating transverse channels arranged one above the other as described, and a central projection-to limit the opening of the valve," substantially as set forth.

4. As an article of manufacture, guards yso as to require a double reversal of flow for egress, and provided with a projection and inverted cup, adapted to restrict the opening motion of a valve and protect such projection from contact and yadherence of cohesive fluid, substantially as setforth.

WILLIAM H. PAYNE. Witnesses C. R. MORGAN, Z. K. LOUc-Ks. 

